On 11/26/2005 10:55:12 AM, seth vidal wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 15:50 +0000, Willem Riede wrote: > > On 11/26/2005 10:18:45 AM, seth vidal wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 15:10 +0000, Willem Riede wrote: > > > > > > > > Perhaps I should file a yum RFE to make yum not only select mirrors > > > > for access speed, but also for the recentness of their metadata file? > > > > > > what we had considered was using the fastest mirror plugin to sort the > > > list of mirrors. Then store that sorted list in the repo cache > > > directory. Then redownload the list and re-sort/store it every 8 hours > > > or so, same as how we're storing the repomd.xml data, now. > > > > So is something like that going to happen, or do I need to give an extra > > (RFE) nudge? :-) > > an rfe is not going to nudge anything. Submitting the code is going to > make it happen faster. So I posted a variant to the fastestmirror plugin that does what I described here: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel/2005-December/001715.html but so far noone has reacted to it there - maybe the fedora community has more interest? Regards, Willem Riede. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list